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Civil procedure [2025] JRC 278

SkyFall Collections Limited v Swissport Jersey Limited (Royal Court : Hearing

SkyFall Collections Limited v Swissport Jersey Limited (Royal Court : Hearing (Civil) : Cadin) [2025] JRC 278 (31 October 2025)

The Royal Court held that SkyFall’s assignment of a tort claim was invalid as a bare right to litigate and an abuse of process, unless the claimant continues in his own name.

  • Assignment of tort claims
  • Champerty
  • Maintenance
  • Rights of audience
  • Debt collection agency regulation
  • Assignment-of-tort-claims
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Tort [2024] JRC 076

Carvalho v Love

Carvalho v Love [2024] JRC 076 (02 April 2024)

A Jersey personal injury judgment after an admitted rear-end collision, awarding damages for whiplash-type neck and shoulder injury, psychological harm, past loss of earnings, and future earning disadvantage.

  • Negligence
  • Damages
  • Mitigation of loss
  • Loss of earnings
  • Whiplash injury
  • Psychological injury
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Tort [2024] JRC 058

Chivers v Da Silva Araujo

Chivers v Da Silva Araujo [2024] JRC 058 (13 March 2024)

The Royal Court found the defendant negligent after he failed to keep a proper lookout and struck a cyclist crossing at a signal-controlled crossing.

  • Negligence
  • Contributory negligence
  • Duty of care
  • Standard of care
  • Pedestrian and cyclist accidents
  • Road-traffic-accident
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Civil procedure [2024] JRC 012

Crow v Fresh Dough Company Ltd and Anor

Crow v Fresh Dough Company Ltd and Anor [2024] JRC 012 (16 January 2024)

The Royal Court of Jersey refused to strike out defences after a window was replaced and lost. The Master held there was no abuse of process and a fair trial remained possible.

  • Abuse of process
  • Destruction of evidence
  • Fair trial
  • Contributory negligence
  • Obligations to preserve evidence
  • Abuse-of-process
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Tort [2022] JRC 271

Neville v Bray and Ors

Neville v Bray and Ors [2022] JRC 271 (07 December 2022)

The Royal Court held the misfeasance claims were not time-barred, kept the individual defendants in the case under representative conduct, and struck out claims against the Attorney General and a deceased defendant.

  • Misfeasance in public office
  • Vicarious liability
  • Limitation period
  • Fair trial rights
  • Strike out applications
  • Misfeasance-in-public-office
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Tort [2022] JRC 246

Piechota v The Jersey Royal Company Limited

Piechota v The Jersey Royal Company Limited [2022] JRC 246 (08 November 2022)

The court held that most of the claimant’s ongoing pain and disability stemmed from family stress rather than the accident, limiting damages to accident-related loss.

  • Whiplash injury
  • Somatic symptom disorder
  • Causation
  • Quantum of damages
  • Loss of earnings
  • Pain and suffering
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Civil procedure [2021] JRC 083

MB & Services Ltd and Golovina v United Company rusal internationals Public Joint Stock Company 23-Mar-2021

MB & Services Ltd and Golovina v United Company rusal internationals Public Joint Stock Company 23-Mar-2021 [2021] JRC 083 (23 March 2021)

The court refused to strike out most of the claim, but ordered amendment of the pleading to specify governing foreign law, confidential information, and alleged patent infringement particulars.

  • Breach of confidence
  • Conspiracy to injure
  • Foreign law pleading
  • Patent infringement
  • Particularisation of confidential information
  • Breach-of-confidence
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Civil procedure [2021] JRC 007

Huda v Minister for Health and Social Services 13-Jan-2021

Huda v Minister for Health and Social Services 13-Jan-2021 [2021] JRC 007 (13 January 2021)

The Royal Court declined to strike out the defendant’s answer for discovery failures, but found serious breaches of preservation and ordered further searches, a proper document list, and indemnity costs.

  • Discovery
  • Document preservation
  • Misfeasance in public office
  • Relief from sanction
  • Abuse of process
  • Document-preservation
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Tort [2020] JRC 031

Corbin v Dorynek and Flath

Corbin v Dorynek and Flath [2020] JRC 031 (18 February 2020)

The Royal Court ordered a split trial on liability in a maritime collision claim, but refused a preliminary issue on limiting liability under Jersey shipping law.

  • Negligence
  • Contributory negligence
  • Limitation of liability
  • Split trials
  • Preliminary issues
  • Split-trials
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Tort [2019] JRC 051

Verga v Nedbank Private Wealth Ltd and Ors

Verga v Nedbank Private Wealth Ltd and Ors [2019] JRC 051 (28 March 2019)

The Royal Court struck out a plaintiff’s tort claim as time-barred and, alternatively, because the pleaded allegations were protected by absolute privilege and statutory immunity.

  • Limitation period
  • Absolute privilege
  • Immunity
  • Negligent misstatement
  • Malicious prosecution
  • Duty of care
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